Electoral district of Blue Mountains

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Blue Mountains
New South WalesLegislative Assembly
NSW Electoral District 2023 - Blue Mountains.svg
Electoral district of Blue Mountains
Interactive map of district boundaries from the 2023 state election
State New South Wales
Created1968
MP Trish Doyle
Party Labor Party
Namesake Blue Mountains
Electors 54,885 (2019)
Area1,422.63 km2 (549.3 sq mi)
Electorates around Blue Mountains:
Bathurst Bathurst Hawkesbury
Bathurst Blue Mountains Penrith
Bathurst Wollondilly Badgerys Creek

Blue Mountains is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Trish Doyle of the Labor Party.

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The 2004 redistribution of electoral districts estimated that the electoral district would have 45,289 electors on 29 April 2007. [1] [2] [3] [4] Since the 2007 election it has encompassed all of the City of Blue Mountains, except Glenbrook and Lapstone. [5]

Members for Blue Mountains

MemberPartyPeriod
  Harold Coates [6] Independent 1968–1976
  Mick Clough [7] Labor 1976–1981
  Bob Debus [8] Labor 1981–1988
  Barry Morris [9] Liberal 1988–1994
  Independent 1994–1995
  Bob Debus [8] Labor 1995–2007
  Phil Koperberg [10] Labor 2007–2011
  Roza Sage [11] Liberal 2011–2015
  Trish Doyle [12] Labor 2015–present

Election results

2019 New South Wales state election: Blue Mountains [13] [14]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Labor Trish Doyle 23,02246.77+5.58
Liberal Owen Laffin13,98228.40−7.11
Greens Kingsley Liu5,99312.17−4.07
Animal Justice Gregory Keightley2,0084.08+4.08
Christian Democrats Cameron Phillips1,7863.63+0.52
Sustainable Australia Richard Marschall1,4963.04+3.04
Keep Sydney Open Mark Pigott9411.91+1.91
Total formal votes49,22897.52+0.04
Informal votes1,2502.48−0.04
Turnout 50,47891.97−1.33
Two-party-preferred result
Labor Trish Doyle 28,83464.86+6.71
Liberal Owen Laffin15,62035.14−6.71
Labor hold Swing +6.71

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  13. "Blue Mountains: First Preference Votes". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  14. "Blue Mountains: Distribution of Preferences". 2019 NSW election results. NSW Electoral Commission. Retrieved 24 January 2022.